Siemens has stuck out a press release to declare the open availability of its private 5G system for industrial-grade networking in Germany, the original home of Industrie 4.0. Is that news, really? The German industrial behemoth’s in-house 5G project has been one of the longer-running sagas in the whole cellular-injected Industry 4.0 game, even at this early stage in its development. RCR Wireless reported from Hannover Messe in May that the system is go, and ready to ship to initial trial customers to attach to the ‘vertical’ 3.7-3.8 GHz band in its home country.
